Re: Mail Servers blocking BAD Helo

[Fernando Amatte <famatte () gmail com>]

Hello Brandon


I faced a similar problem, for a long time I managed  ISPs and we
decided to use Qmail ( www.qmail.org ) with SPAMCONTROL (
http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail.html )  as our SMTP server.

SMPT RFC says that HELO field  must be the FQHN, but  when you are
working with "windows" customers you have a problem ( another one ) .
Outlook Express send  HELO as  the "Machine's name". So we decided do
not DNS Lookup for the HELO/EHLO greeting, but use a  good and well
done  blocklist  ( badhelo ) with regex.
This way we can block some kind of virus, automated Spam programs and
thinks like you  tell, just including another line on badhelo file.

Fernando Amatte